Improvement in gates



WILLIAM B. VVALDO, OF JOHNSVILLE, NEWT YORK.

` IMPROVEMENT IN GATES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. @QAL dated April 19, 1864.

To au whom it may concern.

Be it known that-I, WILLIAM B.v WALDo,

of J ohnsville, in the county of Dutchess and State ot' NewYork, have invented. a new land useful Improvement in Means for Opening and\Olosing Gates; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the-accompanying'drawings, making a part of this specitication,in which- Figure lis a plan or top View of a gate withfmygi'mprovement applied to it; Fig. 2, a side view of the same; Fig. V3, an end view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

ThisZinvention relates to an improved gateoperating mechanism' of that class designed to admit of thegate being opened and closed by`a driver from a vehicle or a rider on horse-4 bak..

yThe object Aot' the-invention is to obtain a simple devieefor the purpose, and one which will operate in the'most eicient manner and be capable ot' being actuated by the driver or rider with the greatest facility and without the liability of a vehicle being injured by comiugfin contact with any ot' the parts thereof. 4

To enable'those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will lproceed to describe it.

A A' A" represent three posts, which are placed in line with each other, the central one, A', having the gate B connected with it as follows On the upper end-v ot' the post A' there is fitted a lever, C, which works on a .vertical pin, a, inthetop of said post, said lever being allowed to turn or work freely on its pin a. Thev inner post,lb, of the gate Bvhas a verticalpin, c, fitted iniit,' `said pin extending `up into the lever (l at a short dis! Fig. l2. In the lower .end of vthe gate-post b On the upper ends of the posts A A" there are `fitted levers D D'. These Alevers work on vertical pins e e in the upper ends ot' the posts AA, said fpins .passing centrally through the levers, and each lever has a ring, E, passing through it near its ends; These rings may be of metal or wood. Heavy wire would answera goed purpose.

The leversD D' are connected near their ends by two cords or ehains,F F', both of which are shown clearly in Fig. 1, and one of them, F', is connected to the outer end of 'the lever G-otpost A'.

G is a vertient-iieist-iiiaeecil` i'n a plane with the post A', whichu is at right angles to the plane otl the posts A A' A". In the upper end of -the post G there are fitted two catches, -H H, which are pendants and work loosely on rods j' in the post. The upper .ends of these pendent catches are rounded at their outer sides, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

In the outer post, b, of the gate B, near its upper end, there is iitted a horizontal rod, g, which, when the gate is closed, is between the two catches.llLtheupper partsV of thov latter being allowed to swing inward or toward each other, but not outward from each other. Y Y

The operation is as follows: In approaching the gate B from either side of it the driver or rider grasps Athe vlever D or D', or the ring E thereof, and turns said lever, which causes the lever O on post A' to be turned in va corresponding manner. The lever C, in being thus turned, performs two functions: First, iteauses the outer end of the gate B to be raised, so that the rod g will be raised out from between the catches H H, as shown in red in Fig. 2; and, second, it throws the post b ot" the gate B in au inclined position, moving it in the Ypath of the face or periphery of au inverted cone, sothat the gate will open and close by its owngravity. After the gate has been opened and the vehicle has passed through it, the lever D or. D' of the post A or A" (against which the open gate rests) is turned, ,andthe lever 0 is moved back to its original position and the gate closed.

The rings E form an essential feature 4ot the invention, as they serve as guards to prevent the levers D D' from catching into the bows of a carriage-top, and they also serveas a means by which to turn the levers D D'. The pendent catches H H also operate, in

connection with the rod g in a very eihcient l'namger. They cau-se `the gate to lbe Iirmlyl andfpendent catches H, all lc'o'nstruetcd and held in a closed state, vand admit, of 'the gate operating in the manner herein shown aLd engaging eiteatehing itself with certainty. ldescribed. f

Having thus described my invention what I I claim as new, and desire to secure by Ietters VILLIAM B WA LDU' Patent, isl Witnesses: v The .frrangement of the rings E, levers D JOHN B. WALDO,

D', nndrepes F F', with the lever U, post G, ABRAHAM WAY. 

